John Paul Stevens

Name: Six Amendments
ISBN: 9780316373746

Judge

1920-04-20

Books by John Paul Stevens

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I have been opposed to ceremonies at the White House. It gives the impression that the court is subordinate to the executive, which I think is quite wrong.
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District of Columbia v. Heller, which recognized an individual right to possess a firearm under the Constitution, is unquestionably the most clearly incorrect decision that the Supreme Court announced during my tenure on the bench.
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When I joined the Supreme Court in 1975, both state and federal judges accepted the Court's unanimous decision in United States v. Miller as having established that the Second Amendment's protection of the right to bear arms was possessed only by members of the militia and applied only to weapons used by the militia.
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Colonial history contains many examples of firearm regulations in urban areas that imposed obstacles to their use for protection of the home.
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